Modeling, Control and Power Management Strategy of a Grid connected Hybrid Energy System (original) (raw)

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This paper presents the detailed modeling of various components of a grid connected hybrid energy system (HES) consisting of a photovoltaic (PV) system, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), an electrolyzer and a hydrogen storage tank with a power flow controller. Also, a valve controlled by the proposed controller decides how much amount of fuel is consumed by fuel cell according to the load demand. In this paper fuel cell is used instead of battery bank because fuel cell is free from pollution. The control and power management strategies are also developed. When the PV power is sufficient then it can fulfill the load demand as well as feeds the extra power to the electrolyzer. By using the electrolyzer, the hydrogen is generated from the water and stored in storage tank and this hydrogen act as a fuel to SOFC. If the availability of the power from the PV system cannot fulfill the load demand, then the fuel cell fulfills the required load demand. The SOFC takes required amount of hydrogen as fuel, which is controlled by the PID controller through a valve. Effectiveness of this technology is verified by the help of computer simulations in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment under various loading conditions and promising results are obtained. 1. INTRODUCTION Due to the considerations of environment condition, applications of renewable energy sources (RESs) are more promising; that makes environment pollution free. Also, their availability is cost free and continuous [1], [2]. Numerous RESs consist of photovoltaic system (PV), wind turbine system (WT) and micro-turbines, etc. which are considered as components of hybrid energy systems in the literature and also demonstrate applications of micro-grid [3], [4]. Due to the various seasonal and bad weather conditions such as temperature, wind speed, solar radiation and also geographical conditions, these structures are not worked properly. So, the solutions must be needed and find out. Hence, energy storage systems (ESSs) are suitable for the solution of the mitigation of wind effects, solar radiation fluctuations and also ESSs uphold the power and energy balance. Power quality also improves due to ESSs. Due to the fast variations of power, ESSs must contain a high power density as well as high energy density. So, it is required to keep more than one storage system for a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) [5]-[7]. The ESSs and battery banks (BBs) are efficiently used in hybrid energy systems (HESs). But, lifetime of batteries decreases due to the charging and discharging cycles [8], [9]. A secondary energy sources is required to enhance the supply energy reliability of HESs. Hence, a fuel cell (FC) is required to combine with the electrolyzer by giving a continuous supply to the load [10], [11]. The strategies of energy management consist of combination of PV, WT and FC comprising with electrolyzer as well as battery storage. These are most effective practice for quality of higher

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Figure 1. Hybrid system connected to grid (Proposed Model) 2.1. Modeling of photovoltaic (PV) system Mathematical model of the PV system is shown in [15], [16]. The power characteristic of the P\ system is represented in [2]. To draw out the maximum power which is available in PV array, it is useful tc operate the PV system at MPPT. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is a process where PV array inverters which are connected to grid and other similar devices are employed to extract the maximum amount power. Hence, the PV module is designed with the help up MATLAB/SIMULINK by considering the following Equation (1). Also Table 1 contains specifications of the photovoltaic (PV) array.

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2.2. Modeling of electrolyzer Parameters considered to design the PV system such as Ip is the reverse saturation current of PV cell in [A], Isc is the short-circuit PV cell current in [A], Ipy/I,, is the output current of PV cell in [A], k is the boltzmann’s constant in [J/°K], a is the completion or ideality factor, q is the electron charge in [C], Rpis the PV cell containing parallel resistance in [Q], Rs is the PV cell containing series resistance in [Q], Ns is the no. of series cells in a string of the PV cell, Np is the No. of parallel strings, T is the temperature of the PV cell in [K], Vpy is the PV cell terminal voltage in volt in [V],Vyp is the voltage related to maximum power of the PV cell in [V], Vocis the PV cell open-circuit voltage in volt in [V]. a i a a Electrolyzer is used to decompose the water (H2O) into two elements, first one is hydrogen and another one is oxygen by circulating the electric current in the electrolyzer containing two separate electrodes. The process is called electrolytic process or electrolysis [11]. The electrolysis equation of water is shown below:

Figure 2. A brief model of electrolyzer using Simulink From the Equations (3) and (4), an electrolyzer model is designed through the help of Simulink that is shown in Figure 2. 2.3. Modeling of storage tank

Figure 3. A brief model of hydrogen storage tank using Simulink 2.4. Modeling of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)

Figure 4. A brief model of SOFC system using simulink

Figure 5. A detailed block diagram of Hybrid Energy System (HES) The DC-link voltage is used to control the active power with its desired value. Output of the DC- link PI controller (ig*) acts as a reference of the current PI controller (active current controller) that is shown in Figure 5(c).

Figure 6. Detailed diagram of Hydrogen generation, control and output of boost converter connected across SOFC

Figure 7. Output voltage and current of hybrid energy system (HES) Figure 8. Voltage, current and power of 3-phase load

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